158 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
rough this perfectly transparent shell is visible a lining mem- 
brane or rather the borders of such a membrane, which is the mantle. 
Within this and near the hinge, a large flask-shaped body containing a 
digestive cavity surrounded by a dark mass. This cavity extends into 
the neck of the bottle shaped cavity (cesophagus) and terminates towards 
the gap of the shell in a mouth. From the opposite or basal end of the 
digestive cavity goes off a pretty long intestine which turns first to the 
left, makes several convolutions and terminates in an anus on the right 
about a line in length. There is no trace of a peduncle. It appears o 
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Académie des Sciences at Paris, June 4, they exhibited (1.) Two ingots 
of platinum weighing together 25 kilograms, fused in the same ‘ 
cast in an ingot mould of cast iron. The surface of the metal shows eVE 
dence of perfect fluidity and carries the impression of characters engraved ; 
on the surface of the mould. : 
(2.) A toothed wheel, of platinum cast in ordinary founders’ sand w4 
shown. This was cast in the mode common for cast iron in a tw 
part flask with a sprue and vent holes as usual. 
